National Chair: Bill Redpath, incumbent, not seeking reelection, although he may run for a different position on the LNC.
Known candidates: Wayne Root
Mark Hinkle (1, 2)
George Phillies (1, 2)
Ernest Hancock: I’ve not found an article, but I saw an email response from him on a yahoo group (can’t remember exactly where or when) that “of course” [...]

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LP blog:
by William Redpath
(originally published in the December 2009 issue of LP News)
I can’t know what each of you thought when you read the headline above, but probably the most charitable thought was “Poor Bill Redpath. He almost made it to the end of his second term as Chair before he cracked up.”
Please be assured [...]

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via email and LP blog:
Dear Friend of Liberty,
The Libertarian Party was founded 38 years ago on December 11, 1971. One of the founders, David Nolan, remains active within the party and is slated to speak at our 2010 National Convention in St. Louis over Memorial Day weekend. (Details for the convention, including prices [...]

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Posted by Jake Porter in Libertarian Strategy Monthly:
Libertarian National Committee Chair, Bill Redpath, announced on Sunday at the Libertarian National Committee meeting in Nashville, Tennessee that he would not seek a third term as Chair of the Libertarian National Committee. Redpath did appear to be open to the possibility of running for another position on [...]

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September 28, 2009
Dear Friend of Liberty,
During the 2008 primary, many Republican presidential candidates claimed to be like former President Ronald Reagan. This was apparently intended to mean that they supported small government. I recently listened again to this speech promoting free enterprise, which Ronald Reagan gave in 1977 (before he was elected president).
I found [...]

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The D.C. city council Committee on Government Operations will be holding a hearing on Monday, on the “Omnibus Election Reform Act of 2009,” which strengthens ballot access laws. Libertarian Party national chair Bill Redpath and Green Party Political Director Brent McMillan expect to testify.
The District of Columbia requires more signatures, as a percentage of [...]

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HB 2981 , which earlier passed the WV House, cuts the number of signatures from to 2% to 1% of the number of voters who voted for a given office in the previous election to get someone on the ballot for that office in an upcoming election.
The State Senate passed an equivalent bill today, [...]

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Press release posted at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

WASHINGTON – Libertarian National Committee (LNC) Chair William Redpath released the following statement Friday concerning the passage of a $3.5 trillion budget by Congress last night:

“Yesterday’s passage of a $3.5 trillion budget, stuffed full of wasteful and unconstitutional spending and funded [...]

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Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

Libertarian National Committee Chairman Bill Redpath is — once again — one of several Washington leaders quoted in today’s installation of The Hill blog’s "The Big Question." 
Today’s "Big Question" was "Politically, was it a good move or a blunder for House Republicans to vote [...]

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Phillies, in group email:
“…my state chair (Dave Blau) had a phone call from the LNC Acting Director, and in one of the early sentences the first two words form Mr. Krauss’s [sic] lips were, I am told, “please” and “disaffiliate”.”
The Massachusetts LP has passed resolutions at odds with the national LP leadership:
Libertarian Party [...]

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Ballot Access News:
On January 14, West Virginia Libertarian Party state chair Matt Harris, and national chair Bill Redpath, spent the day lobbying key West Virginia legislators for better ballot access. Currently, for president, West Virginia is tied with North Carolina for having the 2nd most restrictive requirement. West Virginia requirements for office other than president [...]

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by Libertarian Party National Chairman William Redpath
http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/is-obama-a-centrist-lp-says-no
In today’s political arena, it’s sometimes hard to tell left from right, and right from left. This makes finding the political “center” that much more difficult. So, is president-elect Barack Obama actually a centrist?
While Obama currently appears to be not as extreme as his campaign rhetoric might have suggested, [...]

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Letter from the LP Watergate headquarters in DC, signed by national chair Bill Redpath:

Posted by Brian Miller at Delaware Libertarian

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Libertarian Party national chair Bill Redpath interviewed in the Loudoun Extra section of the Washington Post. H/T Ballot Access News.
Q: How long have you been involved with the Libertarian Party and what inspired you to join?
A: I joined the Libertarian Party on April 30, 1984. I joined because – while I thought the Reagan tax [...]

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